hyperexplosion

English

Alternative forms

• hyper explosion
• hyper-explosion

Etymology

hyper- +‎ explosion

Noun

hyperexplosion (plural hyperexplosions)

1. (rare) An extremely severe explosion; a superexplosion.
   • 1982, Jennifer M. Groh, Tectonics & Structural Geology Newsletter, Volume 8‎^[1], Specialist Group in Tectonics & Structural Geology. Geological Society of Australia, page 52:

     Impacts versus Hyperexplosions as a cause of circular structures on Earth.

   • 1993 September 26, Sharon Begley, “The Puzzle Of Genius”, in www.newsweek.com‎^[2], archived from the original on 9 May 2021:

     His "inflation theory" posits that the universe began in a hyperexplosion that makes the big bang look like a whimper; it answers mysteries of cosmologyon which earlier theories had been mute."

   • 2009, John C. Wright, Null-A Continuum‎^[3], Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 215:

     His shadow-form would be immune to the resulting singularity hyperexplosion.